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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10828

17 April 2013
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) fisheries
EP wants sanctions on Iceland and Faroes over mackerel

Brussels, 16/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - During their evening sitting in Strasbourg on Monday 15 April, MEPs called for sanctions to be imposed on Iceland and the Faroe Islands in the context of the dispute over mackerel fishing in the North-East Atlantic. This fishing “war” began in 2009 when the two countries unilaterally and exponentially increased their mackerel quotas. Antolin Sanchez Presedo (S&D, Spain) and Alain Cadec (EPP, France), in particular, stated that the Faroe Islands had...

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